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2/12/11

Shall I Compare Thee...

Today we have one of the best love poems ever written in the English language, Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

Freedom's Plow

"When a man starts out with nothing,When a man starts out with his handsEmpty, but clean,When a man starts to build a world,He starts first with himselfAnd the faith that is in his heart-The strength there,The will there to build."

-- Langston Hughes

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Wish I'd Said This...

"My cup is half full -- and to me that means there is another half that's open and ready to be filled with even greater things."

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Matt 6:28-29

About Me

I've been an avid reader since I was three. I'm also a writer, gardener, teacher and Christian.Lately I've had massive changes in my life that have led me to look back at the foundation of my beliefs, reaffirming what is good and true.I'm looking ahead with curiosity and optimism even as I deal with the past and try to discover what God has for my future.